MONTGOMERY, Ala. - John McCain may have an uphill battle for the White House, but he's not alone. So do congressional Republicans in their respective races across the country as Democrats vie for big gains.

DAMASCUS, Syria - The U.S. will close its embassy in Damascus Thursday "due to increased security risk," as tensions continue to escalate following Sunday's raid on the border town of Abu Kamal in eastern Syria.

CBNNews.com - A former lesbian who became a born-again Christian was found in contempt of court Monday for refusing to give unsupervised visitation of her biological daughter to her former lesbian partner.

JERUSALEM, Israel - Vote from Israel, a nonpartisan organization helping Americans to vote by absentee ballot, says Israel has the third largest group of Americans living abroad, next to Canada and Britain.

The Roman Catholic Church has given its blessing to one of the few pro-life drug stores in the country. So much so that the patron saint of pharmacists is on display at the pharmacy, which is located in a Chantilly, Virginia shopping center.

JERUSALEM, Israel - A team of Israel Police National Fraud Unit detectives will head to the U.S. next week to gather additional evidence in the 'Olmerttours' case, also known as the Rishon Tours multiple-billing affair, against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. - America has billions of tons of coal in its mountains, and with gas prices going through the roof, the question is why isn't more coal being turned into liquid fuel? Where Coal is King

A voting activist group defended itself Tuesday over charges of fraud, saying most of the group's voter registration efforts were done legitimately and should not keep voters out of the Nov. 4 election.

Considering the current U.S. economy, it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that less than eighty percent of NBA season passes are being renewed, which is a record low level. As a result, the NBA's decision to cut 9% of its workforce in the U.S., which translates into about 80 jobs, also seems to be a pretty sound decision.

Hailed by Christian groups as a victory against those who want to strip away America's religious heritage, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Green Bay, Wisc., over a Nativity scene displayed last year at the City Hall.

The Bush administration has harsh words for American International Group, Inc. executives who accepted a federal bailout and then days later, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a luxurious company retreat.

A U.S. federal judge has called for the immediate release of seventeen Uighur Muslims who have been detained in Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years, because they're no longer "enemy combatants." Despite this presumed innocence, they've remained in Guantanamo since they have been unable to find a country that will resettle them.